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So I've finished College. Now what? | biohacker42: Both graduate school and a startup are good ideas.This being the worst economy since 1930, graduate school may be the way to go.You can also do both at same time. |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | pg: Measurement often helps people to focus. |
how would you protect a URL redirection service from spam? | vikram: I'd let the spam come in the first instance and not publish the link, based on rules, or algorithms once you have more data. Later on you can block certain ip addresses. Also try creating a blacklist to get you started. |
how would you protect a URL redirection service from spam? | evgen: If you don't take a peek at the content on the other side of the URL then your options are somewhat limited. If I were faced with this problem I would probably start by doing broad "spam site" classification based on the domain name (which would probably eventually involve things like doing DNS/whois lookups and weighting by registrar.) Once you have likely targets you can silently blackhole the known spam sites and maybe create a "this might be spam, press the button to continue at your own risk" landing page for sites in the classification grey zone. |
Where to get icons for virtual gifts? | pg: I wouldn't be surprised if it was worth paying a designer to make them. They're supposed to seem valuable. |
Where to get icons for virtual gifts? | ucdaz: I've used these design contests from the following forums.
You'll be surprised of their quality.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=94
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/graphic-design-contests/ |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | Tichy: Let him create CSS stylesheets for grid layouts without tables. |
Funding for a teen startup | thepanister: Apply for funding from ycombinator:
http://ycombinator.com/s2009.htmlAnd you will know. |
Funding for a teen startup | pg: It's not a great territory for startups, because the buying decisions are made by such bureaucratic organizations. There's no group of clever, poor early adopters for a startup to start with. |
Where to get icons for virtual gifts? | thorax: You guys look into someone like Viximo instead of inventing your own system from the ground up? |
What podcasts do you listen to? | mikeyur: Gdgt Weekly and TWiT for 'Tech' as well as NLO (http://nobodylikesonions.com) and Stop Podcasting Yourself for comedy/entertainment.Although none of these will help you learn anything they're really good at keeping you occupied/entertained. |
What podcasts do you listen to? | drjrock: RadioLab (http://radiolab.org) is simply the best podcast ever created ever. Other than that, I listen to This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) for serious stuff and You Look Nice Today (http://youlooknicetoday.com/) for comedy. And for a little shameless self promotion, check out the Rails Envy podcast (http://railsenvy.com) for ruby/rails news. |
how would you protect a URL redirection service from spam? | duskwuff: Add a captcha, if you aren't using one already.Rate-limit link creation based on the user's IP.Check submitted links against a URIBL. Prevent users from adding links which are on the blacklist, and remove links which appear on the blacklist.Reject links to newly registered domains outright. |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | blasdel: There's a way you can address him directly without causing drama: defend him! "Hey Bob, I'm worried that the boss will think you're wasting time bogged down in stuff he thinks are unimportant, and that your priority tasks get done by other people. I don't want you to get in trouble, we should figure out a way to avoid this." |
What podcasts do you listen to? | yan: radiolab is awesome (radiolab.org)I like 'the brain science podcast,' and it's pretty much all I listen to on long drives: http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/Ginger Campbell, the author of the brain science podcast also publishes "Books and Ideas" podcast which is enjoyable: http://booksandideas.com/edit: Not exactly a podcast, but if you subscribe to The Economist, you can download the entire issue read by actors on the day of release. I listen to that on drives too sometimes. |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | 10ren: > loses himself in unimportant stuff,If you mean he is perfecting an aspect of the code that isn't important, that is a notorious engineer/Asperger's problem, which is a great strength when properly directed.It's hard for me to believe that a software developer would have no empathy for this character flaw, so maybe that's not what you meant. |
What podcasts do you listen to? | kylec: The only ones I listen to with any regularity are Stack Overflow, Wait! Wait! Don't tell me! (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=518...) and This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Podcast.aspx).I was listening to Planet Money (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944...) but it got hard to keep up a few months ago - it should have been a weekly podcast, not daily, IMHO. I've also occasionally listened to Hanselminutes (http://www.hanselminutes.com/) and Herding Code (http://herdingcode.com/), and while they focus on Microsoft technologies a little too much for my taste, they'll do in a pinch. |
Best practices for rapidly changing database schema? | lrajlich: I've heard of a number of ways of solving this. I don't like json in blobs since you can't query or index the blob data effectively.I propose the attribute table pattern, which I've used to decent amount of success. It's not as sexy as ff's, but it is simple, easily cached, and queried. Here's an example schema of attributes you could set against a userId.CREATE TABLE `Attributes` ( `userId` int(11) NOT NULL,
`attributeId` int(11) NOT NULL,
`charValue` varchar(512) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`userId`,`attributeId`),
) ENGINE=InnoDB;CREATE TABLE `AttributeMap` ( `attributeId` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`attributeName` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`attributeId`),
KEY `attributeName` (`attributeName`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB; |
Funding for a teen startup | kobs: Quizlet (http://quizlet.com/about/) seems to be successful and is run by a teen. I'm not sure if they've taken funding though. |
Funding for a teen startup | minalecs: build it yourself. If you believe in the idea that much, take the time to learn how to do it. |
how would you protect a URL redirection service from spam? | thorax: For ri.ms and tinyarro.ws, we've actually seen significant reduction in spam just by banning abusive IP addresses. So far, that has had the biggest bang for the buck in terms of dropping spam considerably.In other words, we periodically do human review and obvious spammers are IP banned. It's a neverending problem, but they don't use so many IPs that things are out of control.If you do come up with a better approach that doesn't ruin usability, I'd love to hear it, too! |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | minalecs: what do you do if this is your superior ? |
Funding for a teen startup | albertsun: What funding do you really need? Living with your parents takes care of all your biggest expenses. All you have to do is write code. And you have plenty of time to learn how to write code if you don't know how to. |
So I've finished College. Now what? | paraschopra: In Biotech or Bioinfo industry, real work is done only by PhD or Masters. So, if you want to enter the industry, go to graduate school.I am not sure how easy would it be to start a biotech startup at your stage because biotech startups require a lot of funding to get started. However, you can always start a bioinformatics startup which is akin the web/software startups. But even with Bioinfo startups, it is hard to monetize because the culture of open source bioinfo tools is quite prevelant in academia and industry. |
Who is going to the O'Reilly E-Tech Conference? | code_devil: Never knew about this, looks good but expensive. I hope they have Video Sessions online. |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | herdrick: Anything you can do to improve the productivity of one of the best people will overwhelm by an order of magnitude even the most heroic improvement of the doofus. If you are in charge and are allowed to make such decisions, axe him. Getting another crack at finding a top performer is your best bet. |
What podcasts do you listen to? | bemmu: Agreed that Radio Lab and Stack Overflow are the best ones, but I would add Venture Voice to that list too. Google Developer Podcast is occasionally interesting. Hanselminutes may have a few good episodes, but is usually too Microsofty. There are also some nice language podcasts out there, at least Learn Thai Podcast and JapanesePod101 are quite good. All of these can be found on iTunes. |
What podcasts do you listen to? | bemmu: I propose a Hacker News podcast, which would consist of progress updates and lessons learned from start-ups. The host could call each participating start-up every once in a while and then assemble these clips to a show. I won't take on the task of recording it, but would be an avid listener. |
What podcasts do you listen to? | rodrigo: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History , The History of Rome, Econ Talk, and TED talks. As I have a very long conmute im always on the looking. |
How to get better at selling? | JeremyChase: I won't recommend any books, but I do recommend talking to your potential clients. Ask them to buy your product, and when they say no ask them "Why not?". Then figure out what you need to do to change that no into a maybe, or a yes.Don't change everything you are doing to accommodate one customer, but the best way to sell is to talk to your customers and to be flexible.People frequently say that sales is a numbers game, and it is if you never change your tactics. You need to refine them as you go. Just keep talking to them, but learn from each interaction. |
How to get better at selling? | terpua: Read "Four Steps to the Epiphany" |
project suggestions for newbie python hacker | adnam: You could write an app that takes a keyword, looks for recent posts on twitter tagged with that keyword, and returns a list of the other tags that were used for the same posts - a sort of 'what's related' search for twitter tags.Anyone else have any ideas? I encouraged donderwolkje to post here on HN. |
How would you price an iPhone app? | ram1024: how much work went into developing it?
is it a radically innovative and useful application?
is it fun? will it spread socially? what kind of marketing will need to be done to get it sold?there's a billion questions that must be answered that would affect such a decision. without any of that information, even the name of the app or what it actually does, how do you think we can answer that for you? |
How to get better at selling? | Tangurena: There are a couple of issues here.1) to get better at selling, one of the first things to do is more practice [1] at selling.2) there are some skills to learn, and these skills are "soft" ones - which typically receive disdain in techie culture [2].Last year, I ran for public office. I discovered to my surprise that I interviewed [3] poorly. This explains why I've had difficulty getting hired in the past. I plan to join Toastmasters later this year (when my schedule opens up) to help correct this.Some books:Outfoxing the small business owner. Cynical, salesman oriented book. Decent insight into the psychology of many small business owners.
http://www.amazon.com/Outfoxing-Small-Business-Owner-Relatio...E-Myth revisited. We all have cultural baggage about what a business is, and isn't. And for many businesses, that baggage gets in the way of actually getting work done, or getting ahead as a business.
http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abou...Notes:1 - If you've got a good feedback loop for yourself, then any practice, good or bad, will help (aka: practice makes perfect). If your feedback loop tends to the same sort of self deception that most people have, then I recommend finding a coach (aka: repetition will cement bad practices, only perfect practice makes perfect).2 - translation: "dude, you're turning into a SUIT!" (with audible disdaining tone used for last word).3 - While interviewing for a job, and interviewing in the media share the same name, they're different enough that books aimed at helping one tangentially help the other. But at least I now have a brilliant retort to "what is your greatest weakness?" A: I found that I interview poorly. |
Looking for NYC-based technical co-founder for green meta-retail site | smoody: HNers,I have personally known the founder of the above startup for a decade and can vouch for her abilities as both a serial entrepreneur and as a genuinely good person. This isn't her first time doing this, so she has a track record. And, although the funding climate is a bit bumpy these days, there are some unique opportunities specifically in NYC for startups, startups that help local (and non-local) businesses, and for social impact startups in general.There are plenty of 'looking for programmer to implement idea as described on the back of a napkin' situations out there (and I'm not knocking them -- those can be amazing), but this is different. And there is plenty of room for innovation as the site evolves over time.I guess my post raises at least two potential questions:1) Why am I not stepping in as a co-founder? Answer: I'm busy with my own startup. Additionally, she's a good friend of mine and I've learned again and again that working with friends is, in the long term, often high risk with more downside than upside.2) Who can vouch for me? No one on this site perhaps, but even if there were, it's turtles all the way down. :-) Scott |
Gui Design WebApp that makes all widgets look hand-drawn | dawie: After reading your description, this came to mind. http://www.balsamiq.com/Their blog posts are on HN quite often. |
How would you price an iPhone app? | hotshothenry: If it's really useful I'd say no less then 3.99 and no more then 5.99, so I'm thinking 4.99 |
Gui Design WebApp that makes all widgets look hand-drawn | saurabh: That would be Balasmiq
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups |
How to get better at selling? | quellhorst: The best book for me was "The Sales Bible" |
How to get better at selling? | iamelgringo: One of the best business classes that I ever took was from a retired VP of sales for a Fortune 500 insurance company. He highly recommended the Carnegie Sales courses: http://www.dalecarnegie.com/I plan to take that class this next year. |
How would you price an iPhone app? | tstegart: Well, between $.99 and $9.99 is a good starting point, because thats where almost all iPhone apps are priced. Then, you can look at your competitors, and find their range of pricing. I'd be priced comparably, if you offer similar features. I'd also opine that its much easier to raise your prices than it is to lower them.So pick a price, and if you make a comfortable amount of money, keep it. If you make a ton of money, raise it, and if you make little money and people complain all the other apps are better alternatives than yours, then build a better app. |
Have you ever paid for a "Pay as You Wish" album? If so how much? | Dobbs: I payed 13 dollars for a copy of Girl Talk Animal Party. I will admit the reason I payed $13 was because he requested $10 if you were going to download the flaks. At that point he stated he would mail me a copy of the cd in addition if I payed $3 for shipping and handling. |
Do users know what they want & how do you test? | mcav: Users express what they want, sure. But it's up to the developer to gather users' wants and analyze them to search for the reasoning behind the wants.That's the closest I've been able to come to learning what users want -- they often can't articulate it well enough.Conversations go like this: Them: "I want feature X."
Me: "Why do you want feature X?"
Them: "Because... uh... I can't do _____."
They want feature X because they can't perform action Y.Users know what they want, but it's more interesting, and often our task, to discover why they want it. |
Do users know what they want & how do you test? | sam_in_nyc: One thing that's permanently changed the way I answer the question "what do people want" is this video, about how one man discovered that people are segmented, and they won't tell you what they want:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spagh...What you should end up taking away from it is that there is no "perfect" thing you can offer, but rather several different types that appeal to different segments of the population. And these segments won't come out and say: "I want ____!!" Using the video's example, when asked what type of coffee people want, nearly everyone would say "dark rich hearty blend" (or something to that affect). But what they actually prefer is "milky wheat" coffee. This wasn't really known until taste tests were done asking people to rate their satisfaction.. and it turns out there is a strong correlation into these segments.Granted, this is all based on food products, but it applies to the web as well. Jacob Nielson discovered years ago that people are divided into major groups of searchers and browsers, for finding content. I bet that there are tons of other segmentations for user interface type things that I just don't know about (it's not my specialty), as well as expectations for features. For instance, maybe your users would actually prefer it if your links were bold, underlined, and blue, and that when you hovered the underline goes away and it turns a lighter color. Or maybe they'd actually like some sort of RSS feature (that didn't require them to know what RSS was). But they probably won't ask for it.I don't understand your logic... users know what they don't want... add in some magic.. and suddenly they will express their desires? If that magic is the process of deduction, good luck trying every permutation, and seeing if users don't complain.I think A/B testing works best to decide between two implementations. And I think tossing in a new feature and asking: "do you like this" works just as well. |
Do users know what they want & how do you test? | eries: The fact that customers don't know what they want is only an obstacle if our goal is to find out what they think they want. Luckily, our goal is usually to find out what they actually want, which requires some combination of listening, experimenting, and learning.http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/search/label/liste... |
What makes a good programmer? | user: Having a life outside programming :) |
What makes a good programmer? | brianto2010: http://paulgraham.com/head.html> "A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he's working on."http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html> "I'll call the Python paradox: if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to learn it. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you want to get a good job, is a language that people don't learn merely to get a job."http://paulgraham.com/avg.html> "Lisp will make you a better programmer, and yet you won't use it."http://paulgraham.com/taste.html> "Whatever job people do, they naturally want to do better."http://paulgraham.com/avg.html> "After a couple years of this I could tell which companies to worry about and which not to. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had ever seen a job posting looking for Lisp hackers, I would have been really worried."Be self-driven.Be committed.Think different. |
Hacking in a SHTF world | Tichy: I know how you feel, but maybe it is premature to worry about such things. Most of the skills you mention might be relatively easy to learn should they become really important. At least chopping should be easy? Cooking definitely is. Shooting I don't know, but perhaps it is overrated?In any case, it is hard to learn something without having an application for it. Of course one could go to a lonely cabin and practice survival skills now, but it would be inefficient. The benefits of civilization are that we can worry about other things than the low level survival stuff.Information will always be important - web sites about chopping, planting, shooting etc. would probably experience a boom if SHTF. |
Gui Design WebApp that makes all widgets look hand-drawn | csbartus: Pencil http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html is free and built on Firefox/Gecko |
Hacking in a SHTF world | tjic: > During Depression 1.0 everyone seemed so nice.Read about the Bonus Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_armyThere are a thousand other reasons that the Depression was not, remotely, "nice".> Does anyone have some MacGyver preparation tipsI personally think that we're in for a decade-long "L-shaped" / "Japanese style" recession. Unemployment may get as high as 10% ... but that's a level that Europe has lived with for decades. The "good" news is that we're headed into an era of more socialism, which means that property will get stolen, wealth will get redistributed from makers to takers, and productive behavior will be taxed and disincentivized ... but there will be higher spending on unemployment benefits.I'm pretty handy - as the founder of SmartFlix I watch tons of videos on how-to topics. I can operate a lathe and a milling machine, build furniture, do some blacksmithing, frame a house, do plumbing, etc. ... but I honestly don't think it's going to come to that. |
What makes a good programmer? | Tangurena: This is a philosophical question in the ballpark of "what is good?" So I'll turn it around and ask "what do you mean by good programmer?" Someone who meets deadlines? Someone who gets the job done? Someone who doesn't upset the boss?I think the following video will explain why there can never be a single answer to your question:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spagh... |
Hosted Subversion? | nostrademons: SourceForge? Google Code?Or do you mean something that keeps the source code private? I never really understood the point of private source code hosting; if it's on another company's servers, it's not really private anymore, and I'm sufficiently paranoid to distrust it. |
What makes a good programmer? | makecheck: Someone for whom programming is a passion, and not just income. Someone considerate enough to help the next programmer who will look at the code.This type of person then naturally picks up good practices with experience. For example: using multiple languages (and not being afraid to use the one best suited to a task), testing carefully, documenting responsibly, and favoring clarity over cleverness and optimization most of the time. |
Define Genius | jws: From the wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iq, the "positive correlations" section you can expect IQ to be useful predicting the following:• SAT score.• Job performance of a new hire when the new hire does not have existing experience.• Income, but being at the extreme high end doesn't help much more than just being high.• Health. (Some diseases are negatively correlated.)• Committing violent crimes. (negative correlation.)Genius is not in the list. I would suggest that it is something else entirely. |
Hosted Subversion? | rcoder: I work on the Project Kenai (http://kenai.com/) team at Sun, and we provide hosted source code repositories, ticketing, wikis, and a variety of other tools for project management.We're still in beta, so you'll need an invite in order to actually create a project. Hit me up via email (my HN username at gmail.com) and I can pass along an invite if you're interested. |
How do you go about asking someone for ownership of their domain? | brk: From looking at the current site, it seems "the organization" is one guy who never got any further than spending a saturday afternoon editing some html in notepad.I would argue that most "absolutely amazing ideas" can exist on any domain, so there is no "the domain" in this case. There IS a domain currently registered that is probably more fitting to your idea than registering some iteration of "mydmnhsnvwls" or something.If I were you, I'd probably start running with your idea and implement whatever you're going to implement. Petition the current owner of this domain to transfer it to you for a reasonable fee. Since the current domain appears to be setup as some kind of track and field scholarship/fundraiser site, maybe you could make an offer for $xxx.yy and a donation of $xxxxx.yy some time in the future when you reach a goal of profitability or sales or whatever. Appeal to what the current owner appeared to want to achieve, but never did. |
Hosted Subversion? | lhorie: If you mean for private repos, unfuddle.com offers both. |
How do you go about asking someone for ownership of their domain? | alecst: I work with a non-profit organization called Kate's Club (www.katesclub.org). Until recently, however, www.katesclub.com was owned by a guy who was using it for erotic images, and we received more than a few complaints about this. A friend of mine emailed the site owner and said he'd like to purchase the domain, and the guy responded with a relatively high price. The owner asked what he needed the domain for, and when he told him, the owner gave him the domain for 1/10th of what he originally asked.I suggest you present your idea and motives to him, however you might not want to mention that you're planning on making a whole lot of money or he may hold that against you. Come at him with a price and see how he responds. It doesn't look like this site has been maintained nor does it appear to be making any money. |
Define Genius | ErrantX: I have a very high IQ and wouldnt consider myself a genius!Genius, IMO is about seeing things differently and sheer devotion to a cause. Einstein and Darwin would be examples of that. IQ tests do check for that (well not the devotion, but the thinking outside the box) but I dont think they represent it well. |
Hacking in a SHTF world | patrocles: Hard Times by Studs Terkel.While it covers a lot of ground, it does cover what worked and what didn't during the Great Depression. |
Review my First Open Source Project - CommentWidget | andrewljohnson: I also wrote a short blog about the project at: http://www.trailbehind.com/user/andrewljohnson/blog/I'm very curious to hear criticism of the code, so let me know if you spot bugs or bad style. |
Review my First Open Source Project - CommentWidget | sketerpot: It would be a lot cooler if you added default CSS styling that made the comments look aesthetically pleasing. And documented the API for changing it.Right now it looks like the basic functionality is there, but it would catch on a lot easier if it looked unobtrusively snazzy. |
Review my First Open Source Project - CommentWidget | lacker: It's funny how many of the comments on your site are people trying to break your security with <script> tags and the like. Good work so far in resisting them ;-) |
Review my First Open Source Project - CommentWidget | rokhayakebe: Maybe let users login using their Facebook ID. Integrate with Gravatar. Really nice job. |
Why don't you ban the dead link forever? | alecst: I would imagine that the data on the page could change, and therefore it would be irresponsible to assume that the link once bad is always bad. |
Server Anti Virus | thepanister: kaspersky. |
webtools for new website design/flow | poppysan: try pencil -its a firefox plugin.http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/ |
An inexpensive, reliable DNS solutions? | oldgregg: Avoid DNS if at all possible.I've used these guys for years, simple and really reliable:
http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/price/dns.htmlMore recently, Godaddy (and I'm sure other registrars?) includes DNS hosting for free-- It's a crappy interface, but simple and gets the job done. |
Server Anti Virus | martey: Is installing anti-virus standard practice on Windows servers? I always assumed that they (unlike consumer versions of Windows) were locked down enough that, just like with Linux servers, as long as you enabled a firewall and kept up with updates, you would be okay. |
Review my First Open Source Project - CommentWidget | thepanister: You may consider using clickpass for logins, if you will require login.
http://www.clickpass.com/ |
Why don't you ban the dead link forever? | thepanister: I really wish that pg checks this entry out, because I am tired of the spam on this website - although it's relatively low.check this out!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506273I feel that there is no spam protection here! |
Review my First Open Source Project - CommentWidget | Raphael: Don't let someone post the default text, "Your comment goes here." |
I want to learn iPhone development, where to start? | cubicle67: Best resources - the sample apps on Apple's iPhone Dev site (you need to be registered (free))There's wide selection. Find one that you like, and play with it. Change things, add things. Turn it into something else.Worked for me. YMMV |
I want to learn iPhone development, where to start? | amichail: http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430216261 |
how do you split up an iphone app between 3 people? | ram1024: decide what needs to be done, delegate the tasks that people clearly have a talent or knack for. spread the remaining tasks around to those capable of doing them.same as any project of course |
I want to learn iPhone development, where to start? | stuntgoat: O'reilly Safari Library costs money but you get unlimited access to many current programming books to read online. There are several books available on iPhone development and Objective C programming. It helped me immensely when learning Javascript. Also, you can often search for functions and text within the books using the website. Going back and forth from a paper book to the monitor is not as efficient for me; so it worked great, in my case, to switch virtual desktops and browser tabs while working out ideas and learning about syntax and functions.Code, from what is understand, is written in Objective C which is a superset of C. So take a look at some online tutorials regarding Objective C. Syntacticly, it looks different than other popular languages ( to me ). |
how do you split up an iphone app between 3 people? | ScottWhigham: I think that some kind of source code management (SCM) tool is the first step. Subversion, Git, whatever - pick something and go with it. After that, a project mgmt tracking tool of some kind. You can start small (text files) in the beginning and grow into bigger tools that feature bug tracking, feature requests, support, etc.Good luck! |
webtools for new website design/flow | ScottWhigham: Is Balsamiq too low-end? http://www.balsamiq.com/ |
Should I use Amazon S3? | aditya: S3 is probably your best bet, especially if you're building for scale. |
Should I use Amazon S3? | ropiku: Using Amazon S3 you have the advantage of using a tested and scalable system, easy to implement and use and it's not expensive. |
Should I use Amazon S3? | thepanister: Use s3 but be careful, as someone might abuse your bills! |
Should I use Amazon S3? | vaksel: What is the actual site doing? Is it just a file sharing site where you have a 150mb limit, meaning the average size will be a few megs...or is this something special where people upload some special 150mb files? |
I want to learn iPhone development, where to start? | bouncingsoul: Here's what I've found:– Learn Objective-C: http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/– iPhone Dev Central Tutorials: http://www.iphonedevcentral.org/viewtutorials.php?page=Tutor...– iPhone Application Programming Guide (login required): https://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/iPh... |
Should I use Amazon S3? | suhail: Wait till you even have high enough loads to warrant S3 to offload those HTTP requests, in the mean time use nginx to serve your static content. |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | pg: I've been wondering too. My current theory is that it's spammers testing whether submission is unmoderated. |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | thepanister: I have already talked about this problem, but nobody really cares!Even I provided a significant solution to solve the problem:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506028Guess what? I got down-voted on my comment!EDIT: If pg has no time for it, then why does not he allow us to code a solution, and he can review it? And if he likes it, then he would use it! |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | SwellJoe: My theory would be that it is a new spam bot, being tested out by its creator. Just a theory, of course. It could also be a user with a bone to pick with HN; their blog posts consistently got deaded by moderators, perhaps, and now they're angrily trying to prove something. Maybe they're doing it with a spam bot built for the purpose...this is Hacker News, so building such a spam bot would be trivial for most of the audience here. A few lines of Python/Perl/Ruby would do the trick. |
Should I use Amazon S3? | ShabbyDoo: I presume this file doesn't change very often and doesn't require any security in front of it? To be cheap, you could sign up for a few crappy (like GoDaddy) hosting accounts with absurdly high bandwidth limits. Then, provide users with links to them sorta like mirrors. It's not the greatest user experience, but it might be the easiest cheap solution.If you care a lot about user experience, go with S3. |
Should I use Amazon S3? | babo: Using Amazon services your initial cost is low and it's easy and fast to set it up. Using wisely AWS is a great service, especially bootstrapping a new service.There are use cases where AWS is not recommended, having too many machines up and running 24x7 or transferring huge amount of data out of the cloud. For a site with heavy uploads it's even possible to store your data on S3 but serve your clients from a machine hosted outside where data transfer is cheaper. |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | DanielBMarkham: On my blog I'm getting comment spam without any links as well. The usual stuff like "Great work! Plan to come back often!" but there's no link to Joe's Sex Shop or anything -- just a bogus email address and fake name.I used to think it was just poor comments, but it only happens on certain pages, which aren't at the top of my most popular list.My theory is that the bots are working in waves -- first identify easy targets, then slowly exploit them. I wouldn't be surprised if the botnet guys are using Mechanical Turk-type operations just to work the CAPTCHAs and get valid logins for later use.It used to be you could make generalizations about the bot wars. Now, with possibly millions of programmers out there with nothing to do but try to work the system? The complexity and nuance of attacks are several orders of magnitude greater than just five years ago. I'm not sure any kind of sweeping statement catches what's going on, except: there are a lot of entities on the web that are looking for doors -- any kind of doors. Once they find them, it may be months or years before they are ever used. |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | russell: How about banning links in comments until a small karma level, say 10, or a few days registration? Another possibility might be deletion privileges for questionable comments for hackers above a certain karma or registration time. By questionable, I mean comments of a certain form from new users, rather than being completely subjective. |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | mixmax: The answer might be quite boring.When a new user comes to this site he will try out the functionality, click around and see how things work. One of the things that he will probably want to know is how to submit an article. So he goes ahead and tries it, using whatever link he has handy.I know this because I did it myself when I joined. I deleted it right away though. I've seen the same thing on other sites, so it's not that unusual.Edit: tuned down the wording a bit, since PG's reply indicates that this might not be the sole reason. |
Should I use Amazon S3? | jrockway: S3 does look pretty expensive for this case. In general, I think S3 is best for storing files that aren't retrieved often. For hosting a download, there are better options.I have an BingoDisk account that supposedly provides unlimited transfer. If you are just uploading and downloading stuff, it sounds like BingoDisk is ideal. (http://www.bingodisk.com/) I use it for hosting big files, like a 600M SQLite database with information about CPAN modules. It gets quite a few downloads, and nobody has ever told me I'm abusing the service.(FWIW, I used to use BingoDisk for backups, but Linux's WebDAV support does not work well for backups -- way too much caching going on. S3 turned out to be infinitely more reliable. I don't think this has anything to do with BingoDisk, though, but rather how davfs2 is implemented. This may or may not be a problem for your use case.)If you don't mind offloading the cost to your users, though, S3 is probably the way to go. I think Amazon will even bill your users for you now. |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | joe_the_user: Perhaps the spammers are testing to see if the spam "sticks". The sites where the spams stays will be revisited. Perhaps that spammers think that an account that posts links that don't come up on a black list will considered "safer" later when they can then spam seriously. |
how do you split up an iphone app between 3 people? | ibsulon: There are many possible answers depending on the type of application. How difficult is the view? That can be one person, or a very small piece depending. In some types of games, AI can be enough for one person. Business logic or the model, depending on the application, can be two thirds of the work. Further, programmers vary on productivity.My suggestion would be to put out a preliminary design then split it into rough time estimates. Then, everyone pick a task and start working. As you go, you'll get a better idea on what takes the most time and adjust accordingly. |
Should I use Amazon S3? | TomOfTTB: How many users would you have?Because I'm tempted to say you should just try one of these cheapie web hosts and see if that fits your needs. For example, and I have no affiliation with this company other than using them a few times, webhost4life has an account with unlimited* bandwidth and unlimited* storage for $6.95 a month (http://www.webhost4life.com/linux.asp). That's a pretty standard price for linux based hosting.The disadvantage to these types of deals is that they stuff a bunch of websites all on one server which makes performance slow. But it sounds like you'd only have a 1 or 2 page site so that might not be an issue for you.* when these providers say unlimited there is often a clause in the fine print that sets a limit. You should check before signing up for one of these services. |
Should I use Amazon S3? | charlesju: Anime distribution? haha |
Should I use Amazon S3? | yesimahuman: Ah yes, a 150MB file site. Whenever I need to get my 150MB files, I'll go to your site!In seriousness, I don't know what the price for amazon ec2 works out to be. However, during the development phase, it is too expensive. I believe it will cost you $72 to run an instance for a month, base price. I would suggest something like slicehost if all you need is a low power server instance for development, and then look at ec2. |
What's with all the trivial link spam? | eli: It's not just testing the system. At least one popular blog anti-spam system forces comment to moderation only on the first comment from each person. Subsequent ones go right through.I was seeing spam like this over a year ago across a network of sites all with the same set of messages (e.g. "Good site! Thanks!") |
Is there code-block-enabled chat out there for programming teams? | nixme: I've used EtherPad (http://etherpad.com/) successfully for collaborating on code. The only thing missing is syntax highlighting for languages other than Javascript. |
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